WCOOP 2017: Deep run for Akkari headlines Day 11

Three more winners today and a deep run for Team Pro Andre Akkari, but also PSMozak, which keeps them top of the leader board as we approach the half way stage of this year's Championship.

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The headlines from Thursday

A couple of weeks ago Andre Akkari narrowly missed out on winning the PokerStars Championship Barcelona main event, finishing in fifth place. Last night he narrowly missed out on a WCOOP event, finishing in fourth.

The result, which came in the fixed-limit Badugi, was worth $7125 to the Brazilian, in an event eventually won by paaskebaesen of Norway. You can read the story of that event here.

Elsewhere there were wins for IlDepredator in WCOOP 37 (Team Pro Jeff Gross finished sixth in that one), and plspaythxbye in WCOOP-33. Click through the links below for those stories.

Starting today:

Concluding today:

WCOOP-34-H $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Super Tuesday SE], $1M GtdJust six players remain when this one, which plays on as we write. Girafganger7 leads with an enormous chip lead. There's a first prize of nearly $200,000 up for grabs.

WCOOP-35-H $530 NLHE, $500K GtdDown to a last 85 players from a starting field of 1,348. Mysters_Y leads with $105,000 for first place. Play restarts at 6pm (1pm ET).

You can find details of each of these events on the WCOOP homepage as well as details on how to play and/or win your seat to every WCOOP Main Event.

Other distractions...

Something you didn't know about ElkY: A piece published yesterday gets to those questions you always wanted to ask. Why ElkY? Why that capital Y? And can he speak Korean? Well worth a read, which you can do here.